We are getting close to a global-wide phone system; Vonage now has unlimited calling to USA, Puerto Rico, Canada and now select European countries but we are not there yet. These kids are global, IM chatting with folk from all over. Calling is not practical or cost-prohibative and less intrusive.
I have had IM for years and only have a couple of people I use it with. Thanks, I'll see you on the web! Carl W. Brooks http://www.Palmloyal.com Palm Podcasts, Daily News, Software, Hardware, Mobile Email Services and More! -----Original Message----- From: "Roger Prokic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, Nov 21, 2007 7:28 pm Subject: Re: [Treo] New Centro ads to appear To: <[email protected]>Reply-To: [email protected] When I am in a meeting I IM my wife since I can not call her in a meeting. Doesn't that make sense? ----------------------- Sent from my Treo(r) smartphone -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, Nov 21, 2007 6:24 pm Subject: Re: [Treo] New Centro ads to appear To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [email protected] Hello, Carl W. Brooks. On 21 Nov 2007 17:31:00 -0500 you said: > Yes, the target market for the Centro is the younger folk 20-35, who uses the > social networking tools like SMS, email, Youtube, Myspace and primarily IM. Odd, then, that the Sprint commercial featuring the Centro is featuring primarily people working, not playing. > My 19 old son rarely uses email, he uses IM as the primary communication tool > and until a product like the smartphone makes it available on the go, it has > had him chained to the desktop. The IM app alone on the phone frees tons of > folk from desktop or what I refer to as cubicle jail. It is similar to the > mobile email freed our generation. Why would I need IM on a mobile device? If I'm away from my computer and I have my cellphone with me, just call me. -- Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org The from userid is killfiled Send personal mail to gordol 'The Superior Person's Book Of Words', by Peter Bowler: BOWLER: In cricket, one who, on blundering badly, gets another chance - in contradistinction to a batsman, who does not. Natural blunderers should therefore always be bowlers. 'Slow bowler': one who opens the bowling for an English cricket team. 'Fast bowler': one who bowls to an Australian opening batsman. It will at once be apparent from the preceding definitions that one man may be both a slow and a fast bowler at the same time. Do not allow this to puzzle you - the game has its own metaphysics as well as its ritual and its regalia.
